On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 05:57:40PM +0100, Ash Berlin wrote: [...] > $meeting = $today if $today->day eq 'Thursday' and $today->dayOfMonth >= > 2 and $today->dayOfMonth <= 8; That can be fairly safely simplified to: $meeting = $today if $today->day eq 'Thursday' and $today->dayOfMonth <= 8;